Nude Photography

The best way to approach a eclectic series of nude photographs in a competition is to look beyond what one knows, or what has become familiar to the point of it becoming cliché. You can only wrap so many beautiful bodies in cellophane with dramatic lighting, and call it art. That doesn’t take away its personal value, nor its possibility as a learning experience. But for an image to truly stand out is really difficult in the history the human body on film. That may be why many photographers avoid it as a practice, but might try it when that willing subject comes along at the right moment. But otherwise, they are landscapes of which we are part, but are not.